Waymo, a self-driving car pioneer spun out of
a Google project, also has had to move more
slowly with a robotic ride-hailing service it
launched in the Phoenix area two years ago.
That service, though, has been able to steadily
expand since its debut, and Waymo also has
a permit to deploy fully driverless cars in
California, although the company hasn’t yet
indicated when it might do that.
Three other companies have California permits
to operate fully driverless cars in the state:
AutoX Technologies, delivery service Nuro and
Amazon’s Zoox, which recently posted a video
promoting a Dec. 14 announcement about its
future direction.
Cruise has spent the past five years testing its
technology that has been used in 2 million miles
of self-driving to reach this point in its evolution.